how to pronounce induction

/ɪnˈdʌk.ʃən/

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induction is pronounced in three syllables

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ɪndʌkʃən

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An example use of induction in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… to build an induction motor he picked up …”

meanings of induction

noun:

  1. An introduction.
  2. Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
  3. A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
  4. An act of inducting.
  5. Use of rumors to twist and complicate the plot of a play or to narrate in a way that does not have to state truth nor fact within the play.
  6. The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
  7. A method of proof of a theorem by first proving it for a specific case (often an integer; usually 0 or 1) and showing that, if it is true for one case then it must be true for the next.
  8. Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
  9. The process of inducing the birth process.
  10. In developmental biology, the development of a feature from part of a formerly homogenous field of cells in response to a morphogen whose source determines the feature's position and extent.
  11. An act of inducing.

induction frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word induction occurs in english on average 7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics induction can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that induction can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) education, science, and technology;

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